CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

Element 2: Formality and the level of detail of business analysis deliverables

All business analysis deliverables or results should be defined in the business analysis approach. Predictive planning approaches are typically quite formal and produce very detailed document sets requiring formal approval, whereas adaptive planning approaches can be quite informal and often limit the documentation to the minimum until more detail is required. When an adaptive approach is used, business analysis work is typically approved informally through team interaction and feedback.

An example could be when a business analyst is working on a large enterprise-wide system implementation in the public sector using a waterfall methodology (hence, using a predictive ...